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Quotes about Vantage points

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. 

Sigmund Freud : Austrian founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Source: The Future of an Illusion
Contributed by: Asavari Honavar. More quotes added by bajarbattu from all sources
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